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Does Gloved Medical Personnel Scratch Less Often?

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Medical University Innsbruck

Status

Completed

Conditions

Equipment Contamination
Hygiene
Health Education

Treatments

Procedure: wearing gloves

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00425048
A_B_19_01_2007

Details and patient eligibility

About

Unconscious touching of a person's own head or neck (for example by scratching) is a frequently observed and completely normal physiological movement pattern in humans, which when done by medical personnel attending a patient poses a high risk of unconscious self-contamination, even of an already disinfected hand, and of subsequent contamination of the patient. However, as compared to an ungloved hand, a gloved hand is felt to be "foreign," which could reduce the frequency of self-contact and thus the contamination rate.

Wearing protective gloves is highly recommended in medical practice. The purpose of this study is to explore how wearing, or not wearing, protective gloves affects

  • the frequency of unconscious self-contact
  • contamination of the gloved/ungloved hand

Enrollment

40 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 30 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Medical students working in a simulated OR environment

Trial contacts and locations

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